You must take a different route if you expect to escape this wilderness, because the beast that makes you cry for help lets none pass on her path, bu… - Dante Alighieri

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You must take a different route
if you expect to escape this wilderness, because the beast that makes you cry for help
lets none pass on her path, but cuts him off95 at every step until at last it kills him; and her nature is so wicked and perverse
that her voracity is never sated,
for feeding only whets her appetite. Many she’s mated with among the living100 and will with many more, until the greyhound
arrives to make her die a painful death.

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About Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri (c. 30 May 1265 – 13 September 1321), most likely baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri, was an Italian poet, writer and philosopher. His Divine Comedy, originally called Comedìa (modern Italian: Commedia) and later christened Divina by Giovanni Boccaccio, is widely considered one of the most important poems of the Middle Ages and the greatest literary work in the Italian language.

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Alternative Names: Dante Durante degli Alighieri Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri

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